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authorJohn Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>2006-11-08 10:07:30 -0600
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-11-10 21:35:36 +1100
commitae883cab9457aad0fb3342249e1207873d3b64de (patch)
tree4a3a5841ad0bd947ac030b101f9bc541c8e859fd /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent0091cf5a6ae6e52fc95ceb53200975ef2c81c206 (diff)
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[POWERPC] pseries: Force 4k update_flash block and list sizes
The enablement of 64k pages on pseries platforms exposed a bug in the RTAS mechanism for updating firmware. RTAS assumes 4k for flash block and list sizes, and use of any other sizes results in a failure, even though PAPR does not specify any such requirement. This patch changes the rtas_flash module to force the use of 4k memory block and list sizes when preparing and sending a firmware image to RTAS. The rtas_flash function now uses a slab cache of 4k blocks with 4k alignment, rather than get_zeroed_page(), to allocate the memory for the flash blocks and lists. The 4k alignment requirement is specified in PAPR. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c47
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
index 1442b63..6f6fc97 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@
#define VALIDATE_BUF_SIZE 4096
#define RTAS_MSG_MAXLEN 64
+/* Quirk - RTAS requires 4k list length and block size */
+#define RTAS_BLKLIST_LENGTH 4096
+#define RTAS_BLK_SIZE 4096
+
struct flash_block {
char *data;
unsigned long length;
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ struct flash_block {
* into a version/length and translate the pointers
* to absolute.
*/
-#define FLASH_BLOCKS_PER_NODE ((PAGE_SIZE - 16) / sizeof(struct flash_block))
+#define FLASH_BLOCKS_PER_NODE ((RTAS_BLKLIST_LENGTH - 16) / sizeof(struct flash_block))
struct flash_block_list {
unsigned long num_blocks;
struct flash_block_list *next;
@@ -96,6 +100,9 @@ struct flash_block_list_header { /* just the header of flash_block_list */
static struct flash_block_list_header rtas_firmware_flash_list = {0, NULL};
+/* Use slab cache to guarantee 4k alignment */
+static kmem_cache_t *flash_block_cache = NULL;
+
#define FLASH_BLOCK_LIST_VERSION (1UL)
/* Local copy of the flash block list.
@@ -153,7 +160,7 @@ static int flash_list_valid(struct flash_block_list *flist)
return FLASH_IMG_NULL_DATA;
}
block_size = f->blocks[i].length;
- if (block_size <= 0 || block_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
+ if (block_size <= 0 || block_size > RTAS_BLK_SIZE) {
return FLASH_IMG_BAD_LEN;
}
image_size += block_size;
@@ -177,9 +184,9 @@ static void free_flash_list(struct flash_block_list *f)
while (f) {
for (i = 0; i < f->num_blocks; i++)
- free_page((unsigned long)(f->blocks[i].data));
+ kmem_cache_free(flash_block_cache, f->blocks[i].data);
next = f->next;
- free_page((unsigned long)f);
+ kmem_cache_free(flash_block_cache, f);
f = next;
}
}
@@ -278,6 +285,12 @@ static ssize_t rtas_flash_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
return msglen;
}
+/* constructor for flash_block_cache */
+void rtas_block_ctor(void *ptr, kmem_cache_t *cache, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ memset(ptr, 0, RTAS_BLK_SIZE);
+}
+
/* We could be much more efficient here. But to keep this function
* simple we allocate a page to the block list no matter how small the
* count is. If the system is low on memory it will be just as well
@@ -302,7 +315,7 @@ static ssize_t rtas_flash_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
* proc file
*/
if (uf->flist == NULL) {
- uf->flist = (struct flash_block_list *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ uf->flist = kmem_cache_alloc(flash_block_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!uf->flist)
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -313,21 +326,21 @@ static ssize_t rtas_flash_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
next_free = fl->num_blocks;
if (next_free == FLASH_BLOCKS_PER_NODE) {
/* Need to allocate another block_list */
- fl->next = (struct flash_block_list *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ fl->next = kmem_cache_alloc(flash_block_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fl->next)
return -ENOMEM;
fl = fl->next;
next_free = 0;
}
- if (count > PAGE_SIZE)
- count = PAGE_SIZE;
- p = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (count > RTAS_BLK_SIZE)
+ count = RTAS_BLK_SIZE;
+ p = kmem_cache_alloc(flash_block_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
return -ENOMEM;
if(copy_from_user(p, buffer, count)) {
- free_page((unsigned long)p);
+ kmem_cache_free(flash_block_cache, p);
return -EFAULT;
}
fl->blocks[next_free].data = p;
@@ -791,6 +804,16 @@ int __init rtas_flash_init(void)
goto cleanup;
rtas_flash_term_hook = rtas_flash_firmware;
+
+ flash_block_cache = kmem_cache_create("rtas_flash_cache",
+ RTAS_BLK_SIZE, RTAS_BLK_SIZE, 0,
+ rtas_block_ctor, NULL);
+ if (!flash_block_cache) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create block cache\n",
+ __FUNCTION__);
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
return 0;
cleanup:
@@ -805,6 +828,10 @@ cleanup:
void __exit rtas_flash_cleanup(void)
{
rtas_flash_term_hook = NULL;
+
+ if (flash_block_cache)
+ kmem_cache_destroy(flash_block_cache);
+
remove_flash_pde(firmware_flash_pde);
remove_flash_pde(firmware_update_pde);
remove_flash_pde(validate_pde);
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